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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 18
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Hezekiah reigns in righteousness in Judah—He destroys idolatry and breaks the brasen serpent made by Moses because the children of Israel burned incense to it—Sennacherib king of Assyria invades Judah—In a blasphemous speech Rab-shakeh asks Jerusalem to surrender to the Assyrians.
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Now</span> it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, <i>that</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 1: 1.">Hezekiah</a> the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
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Twenty and five years old was he when he began to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 29: 1 (1-29).">reign</a>; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.  His mother’s name also <i>was</i> Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, according to all that David his father did.
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&#182; He removed the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 3.">high</a> places, and brake the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 26: 13.">images</a>, and <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Judg. 6: 25; 2 Kgs. 23: 14.">cut</a> down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/4d" mark="d" type="C" title="2 Ne. 25: 20; TG Symbolism.">serpent</a> that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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He <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 25.">trusted</a> in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor <i>any</i> that were before him.
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For he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 23: 8; Jacob 6: 5.">clave</a> to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded Moses.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was with him; <i>and</i> he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
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He smote the Philistines, <i>even</i> unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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&#182; And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which <i>was</i> the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, <i>that</i> Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
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And at the end of three years they took it: <i>even</i> in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that <i>is</i> the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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And the king of Assyria did carry away <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor <i>by</i> the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
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Because they <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyed</a> not the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, but transgressed his covenant, <i>and</i> all that Moses the servant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded, and would not hear <i>them, </i>nor do <i>them.</i>
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&#182; Now in the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 36: 1 (1-22).">fourteenth</a> year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear.  And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 39: 2.">Hezekiah</a> gave <i>him</i> all the silver that was found in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
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At that time did Hezekiah cut off <i>the gold from</i> the doors of the temple of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <i>from</i> the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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&#182; And the king of Assyria <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 32: 9 (5-26).">sent</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 20: 1.">Tartan</a> and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem.  And they went up and came to Jerusalem.  And when they were come up, they came and stood by the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/17c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR ditch, aqueduct.">conduit</a> of the upper pool, which <i>is</i> in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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And when they had called to the king, there came out to them <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 22: 20.">Eliakim</a> the son of Hilkiah, which <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
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And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence <i>is</i> this wherein thou trustest?
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Thou sayest, (but <i>they are but</i> vain words,) <i>I have</i> counsel and strength for the war.  Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 36: 6; Ezek. 29: 6 (6-16).">reed</a>, <i>even</i> upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so <i>is</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
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But if ye say unto me, We trust in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God: <i>is</i> not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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Am I now come up without the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> against this place to destroy it?  The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand <i>it:</i> and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that <i>are</i> on the wall.
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But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words?  <i>hath he</i> not <i>sent me</i> to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/18/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 32: 18 (5-26).">language</a>, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
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Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make <i>an</i> <i>agreement </i>with me by a present, and come out to me, and <i>then</i> eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will deliver us.
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Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Where <i>are</i> the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?  where <i>are</i> the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?  have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
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Who <i>are</i> they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
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But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which <i>was </i>over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with <i>their</i> clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
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